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the original group chat: strangers agreeing to survive the desert together.
means a caravan is a group of traders or travelers moving together across dangerous terrain for safety and shared logistics.
from from persian karvan, a company of desert travelers, filtered through arabic and turkish trade routes before landing in english via french.
camel mathsome silk road caravans numbered over a thousand camels.
caravanserairoadside inns built solely to host these traveling convoys.
security featurejoining one was cheaper than hiring your own guards.
word twingave english both the vehicle and the traveling group.